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Insurers complain noisily when regulators step in to stop them charging more to some groups, but there might be a benefit to us all when a better balance is found.
A fisherman prepares his boat on Lake Malawi about 100 kilometres east of the capital Lilongwe.
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Whatever the limitations of mediation – even a painfully slow one – Malawi stands to gain more from a consensual resolution in the boundary dispute with Tanzania.
Soldats de l'opération Barkhane et des forces maliennes côte à côte dans le nord du Mali, en mars 2016.
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Le Président Macron participe, ce 2 juillet, à Bamako, à un sommet réunissant cinq chefs d’État de la région. Il s’agit d’accélérer la mise en place d’une force militaire antiterroriste.
By rolling back chunks of the Obama deal with Cuba, Donald Trump is giving up just the sort of opportunities he promised to seek out.
It can be easier to raise money to aid animals like these African elephants than species that are more threatened with extinction but get humans less excited.
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Must the money raised to save wildlife always aid the most popular animals? New research suggests that marketing can persuade donors that northern hairy-nosed wombat lives matter too.
Police walk past Borough Market after the attack at London Bridge on June 3.
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For a military battle whose outcome is still hotly contested 30 years later, the impact was so remarkably clear – independence for Namibia, peace for Angola and the death knell for apartheid.
KwaZulu-Natal is home to smaller wildlife sanctuaries and private game reserves like Hluhluwe-iMfolozi where poaching has increased.
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South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province is bearing the brunt of renewed rhino poaching efforts. This is a result of increased security and anti-poaching in the Kruger National Park.
Dans un hélicoptère de la force Barkhane, en mars 2016.
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S’entêter dans le paradigme du contre-terrorisme comme mode principal de résolution de la crise malienne a de fortes chances de mener vers une polarisation explosive du paysage politique.
Combating corruption is a key priority for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
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There appears to be no resolution in sight over the impasse between Nigeria’s president and the Senate over Muhammadu Buhari’s choice of chief crime buster. Who will blink first?
Gone but not forgotten: Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s funeral, 2008.
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Talk of punishing parties for their stance on the referendum may be overhyped – not least because of all the confusion about where each actually stands.